GVSU, GR performers partner up for ‘Dido & Aeneas’

As the billowing blue curtain waited to be parted, audience members flooded into Grand Rapids’ Peter Martin Wege Theater. From undersea enchantment to singing sailors, storms and falling tears, viewers would soon be introduced to a bottomless pool of local talent.

From Oct. 9-11, the theater hosted four performances of “Dido & Aeneas,” a tragic 17th century baroque opera from Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate.

By Daniel Goubert | Lanthorn
Read the story at Lanthorn | Published: September 11, 2015